MacBook Air showdown
Last week Apple launched a new laptop, the MacBook Air. This week in tech, the 6th grade split up into 3 groups and each team compared this new ultra-thin laptop to others on the market.
- Macbook Air
- OS Leopard
- $1799-$3098
- 2GB Ram
- up to 80GB storage
The competitors were:
- The OLPC XO laptop
- Linux OS
- $200
- 512MB Ram
- 2GB storage
- Apple’s standard MacBook
- OS Leopard
- $1099-$1499
- 1GB Ram
- up to 160GB storage
- Alienware’s Area-51 m9750
- Windows XP or Vista
- starts at $1699
- up to 4GB Ram
- up to 640GB storage
Students came up with some interesting comparisons – looking at price, size, features (webcams, peripheral ports, expansion capabilities, graphic cards, etc). They also made some surprising decisions when weighing all of the options. Ask your 6th grader for their opinion.
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